In the five years since Act 10 was passed, median salaries for teachers in the state have fallen by 2.6% and median benefits declined 18.6%, according to an analysis of state administrative data by the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund.

In addition, 10.5% of public school teachers in Wisconsin left the profession after the 2010-2011 school year, up from 6.4% the year before. The exit rate remains elevated, at 8.8%.

As a consequence, the report found, Wisconsin's educational workforce is less experienced: Teachers had an average of 13.9 years experience under their belt in the 2015-2016 academic year, down from 14.6 years in 2010-2011.

Teachers aren't just moving out of the state or out of the field entirely. A higher percentage of teachers are also moving to other districts: From 2015 to 2016, the percentage who did so jumped from 1.3% to 3.4%, according to the report."

For the rest of the story, check out the full piece at CNN Money here.

Comments

Please don’t embarrass our profession with propaganda. This is not a result of losing a union, as noted above there are unionized states experiencing the same thing. Look at Michigan, this article does a much better job at explaining the root cause. http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/michigans_average_teacher_sala.html

Sorry to see a grossly misleading graph that has the ordinate (vertical axis) crossing the abscissa (horizontal axis) at $20,000 instead of at $0. Using such a graph makes any change look far larger than it really is. This comment in no way minimizes the importance of the evil anti-union laws - I am critizing the graph from my perspective as a professional statistician.

This is a nice post explaining a lot about low teacher salaries. I really appreciate your efforts for promoting such a precious information. Please keep posting. If you have more information about this topic plz share in reply to this comment. Thanks